College Avenue Gymnasium

The College Avenue Gymnasium is an athletic facility on the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

It is the second gymnasium built on the site. The first was built in 1892 on the site of College Field, the former RU football field. The first collegiate game of American football was played on the site on November 6, 1869, with Rutgers beating Princeton University, 6 goals to 4 (roughly 42-28 under today's scoring).

The old gym burned down in 1930, and the replacement went up in 1931. Officially, it is the College Avenue Gymnasium, but it is known to the RU community as "The Barn." Most of the seating is in the form of a balcony on three sides, upstairs from the court level, giving the gym one of the most intimate settings in Eastern college basketball while it was RU's main venue for the sport. Seating capacity has been approximately 3,200 throughout its existence.

Rutgers reached its only NCAA Final Four in the 1975-76 season, going undefeated until losing to the University of Michigan in the National Semifinal. Home games at The Barn became festive affairs, with the crowd yelling so loudly that paint chips fell from the ceiling. RU knew it was time to build a bigger home court, and the Rutgers Athletic Center was built across the Raritan River in Piscataway in time for the 1977-78 season. It was renamed the Louis Brown Athletic Center in 1986.

The College Avenue Gym remains the home of RU's wrestling and volleyball teams, the Rutgers University Dance Marathon, as well as gym facilities for students, and there are no plans to replace it.

The current New Jersey State Constitution was written and adopted in a convention held at the College Avenue Gym in 1947. The Jerry Garcia Band played a show at The Barn on February 22, 1980.

Rutgers University

Academics	Rutgers–New Brunswick College of Nursing Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Graduate School of Education Mason Gross School of the Arts Rutgers Business School School of Arts and Sciences School of Communication and Information School of Engineering School of Environmental and Biological Sciences School of Management and Labor Relations School of Social Work Rutgers–Newark College of Arts and Sciences College of Nursing Graduate School Rutgers Business School Rutgers School of Law School of Criminal Justice School of Public Affairs and Administration University College Rutgers–Camden College of Arts and Sciences Graduate School Rutgers School of Business Rutgers School of Law University College

Research	BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Center for Alcohol Studies Center for Urban Policy Research Computationally Advanced Infrastructure Partnerships Center Eagleton Institute of Politics Institute of Jazz Studies Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences National Transit Institute Rutgers University Press Waksman Institute of Microbiology

Campus and student life	Busch Campus Cap and Skull Debate Union Douglass Residential College Glee Club Grease Trucks Greek Life Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Geology Museum Livingston Campus Old Queens One Washington Park Order of the Bull's Blood Philoclean Society Rutgers Buses Rutgers Gardens Student Organizations The Daily Targum The Medium The Centurion Sustainable Farm University Police Voorhees Mall WRSU WVPH (The Core)

Athletics	Rutgers–New Brunswick Rutgers Scarlet Knights Big East Conference College Avenue Gymnasium Inside Rutgers Football Louis Brown Athletic Center Rutgers Scarlet Knights football High Point Solutions Stadium Rutgers–Camden Rutgers-Camden Scarlet Raptors Rutgers–Newark Rutgers-Newark Scarlet Raiders

Rutgersiana	Henry Rutgers History of Rutgers University List of Rutgers University people On the Banks of the Old Raritan Presidents of Rutgers University Rutgers Formula Racing Rutgers Glacier Rutgers University traditions Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War

Coordinates: 40°30′12″N 74°27′10″W / 40.5033°N 74.4527°W / 40.5033; -74.4527

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